LF Chocolate Brown Colored Orpington

[Tony]

Dawn and Pips,
Ok, I`m still fairly new to this whole genetics thing and color names as well. My brown hen and partially brown rooster are whats refered to as reds? Even though her head/neck are solid dark brown and the rest of her body is a lighter solid brown? She`s a red?
So then what color is THIS roo then? I`m getting confused now.

 

[Krys109uk]

He looks like a cross between a buff & a black or blue.

 

[EweSheep]

breed her to a Black Orp, not her brother.

 

[DawnSuiter]

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No not red, I shouldn't have said red. RUSTY leakage on blue feathers.. I believe this comes from a lack of melanizers.. but am still learning. So the feathers SHOULD be blue or black but are not for the lack of the right genes.
What did she look like as a baby chick??? Do you have any pics?
Here's the one I had, I rehomed him to a nice farm not too far away:

The other chicken looks like a cross between buff X black.. which isn't a color it's a color cross
Again.. here's an example:

 

[hinkjc]

I think the problem is most people considered chocolate a cross or problem with the color and culled for it, which is how it got "lost". It certainly wouldn't hurt to do the test mating Tony to see what she is for sure, if you have the space. If not, send her to me.

 

[DawnSuiter]

OF COURSE you should still try

Get busy building another chicken pen

 

[Tony]

Thanks everyone for your help, I will definately put her with a black orp roo and see what happens, keep in touch. To Be Continued...in a couple years. lol

 

[KinderKorner]

I'm curious to what color are the birds next to her.

The lighter brown ones.

They look almost khaki.

She is probably just off coloring from blue/red. But I would defiently pair her with a black male and check.

 

[kswaterfowl]

Dunn or chocolate is a very cool pattern. There were some pictures on another forum of chocolate orpington bantam. She was beautiful! I have seen the color a lot. One of the easiest ways to find it is in the fawn silver duckwing Old English Game bantams. They are dunn. meaing where they would be black in silver duckwing, the black is turned dunn. I have a dunn old english game pullet that I got from a friend. I was planning to try her over a couple of different males to see what happens. She looks chocolate in the sunlight but up close she's more like a blue without the lacing. Its very pretty, I was hoping to put her with a blue male and then later in the breeding season, possibly with a columbian patterned male. To see what turns up.

 

[Tony]

Kinder,
The lighter ones next to her are just plain blue orpingtons, nothing special.
The brown hens parents were a blue orp roo over a black orp hen, no reds.
The red roo with the black tail pictured(mid post) is the same blue roo as the brown, but over a buff orp hen.